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July 24, 2008

grownups just want to have fu-un

Eviter Miya asks, “I want to throw a slumber party for my closest girlfriends (keep in mind we are not teenagers; we are all in our late 20s). I could really use some suggestions for themes, favors, games, food, etc. The only thing I have that is concrete so far is a signature drink! ‘Slumberpartini.’ Help!!!”

Oh, my slumber party days of yore! I’ve long wanted to throw a slumber party for my adult girlfriends. Here’s how I’d do it.

While I’m a big fan of unusual themes, here I think it’s best
to go with the obvious: Re-create a super-girlie slumber party of your
youth.

For food, childhood favorite are easy, cheap and retro-tastic:
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts cut off, Twinkies,
baby carrots with ranch dip, and popcorn. And while these
magic grapes
may not have been a staple at your past slumber parties, they seem
fitting. Check out even more slumber party snack food
here.
Also, there’s no shame in taking the easy way out and simply ordering pizzas.

Decorate your place with posters of teen heartthrobs, current or past. If you can find vintage posters of Jason Bateman circa Teen Wolf Too and Ricky Schroder from his Silver Spoons days, all the better. If not, I’m sure a poster of Zac Efron is easy enough to find.

Ask everyone to bring their makeup kits and have glamour hour with
everyone applying each other's makeup. Or just go for manis and pedis
instead. And be sure to have a stack of magazines like Glamour and Tiger Beat for everyone to flip through. (So sad Sassy is no longer around….)

Play a favorite film from your teen or pre-teen years. I’ll always have a soft spot for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, The Goonies, Grease and Dirty Dancing, but I’d also be down for a film forbidden in my youth, like Nightmare on Elm Street and Gremlins, which spawned the PG-13 rating.

I am having a 40th slumber party and my theme is "I love bags, shoes and boys" I have a personal cake shaped like a handbag and a pair of shoes and I ordered trinkets/charms of handbags,shoes etc for party gifts. We are singing karaoke, and even having a sripper. Surprised that some have never been to a slumber party before and the excitement is building. Party November 2008.

I love the ideas I and my mom are throwing a slumber party for my grandmother that has past away on her b-day for all my aunts and cousins and ladies in the family at a hotel with a retro theme karaoke all her fav songs start mid day and go all night make games in her honer and send everyone off with gift bags about her.